American Association of Physics Teachers.
American Association of Phyiscs Teachers Paul E. Klopsteg records, 1930-1975.
Correspondence; typescripts; minutes. The materials document Klopsteg's activities as a founding member of AAPT, its treasurer (1932-1952) and president (1953-1954). The correspondence (bulk dates, 1953-1962) relates to AAPT awards, annual and executive committee meetings, AAPT history, secondary school physics teaching, and the AAPT committee on physics in engineering education. The typescripts are second and third drafts of the AAPT history by Vincent Parker and Charles Wilder (1966) with Klopsteg's editorial suggestions. The minutes are the treasurer's copy of AAPT Annual Meetings and Executive Committee Meetings from 1930-1955. Correspondents include: Stanley S. Ballard, W. James King, Thomas D. Miner, Melba Phillips, Arnold A. Strassenburg, and Marsh W. White.
This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. Klopsteg was a physicist and professor of applied science, Northwestern University, from 1944; and chairman of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics, 1941-1948.
Ballard, Stanley S. (Stanley Sumner), 1908-
King, W. James.
Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-
Miner, Thomas D.
Parker, Vincent Eveland, 1914-
Phillips, Melba, 1907-2004
Strassenburg, Arnold A.
White, Marsh W.
Wilder, Charles G.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
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AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA